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Neige 10-02-2008 10:01 PM

Well, that decided for whom I am voting.
 
What about you? Do you watch debates? How do the debates affect your vote? I am adressing the North American Pixies especially, but anyone else please feel free to reply as well!

Lilith 10-02-2008 10:15 PM

I do watch the debates. I like to see how the candidates respond when confronted with questions regarding the policies they would enact. Usually I have my mind made up prior to any debate because my beliefs do not fall in line with the centrist ideals.

I enjoyed this debate.

PantyFanatic 10-02-2008 11:28 PM

I honestly don't believe one word that comes out of their mouths while they are tell me any crap they think I want to hear to get elected. My vote is based solely on what I know about how THEY VOTED while in office.

dicksbro 10-03-2008 04:57 AM

I'm with you on that, PF. I don't believe hardly anything said on the campaign trail, either.

IowaMan 10-03-2008 09:12 AM

Yep, I'm going with the PF/DB ticket. Words are pretty cheap and empty when it comes to politicians, in this country anyway.

PF-DB 2008
A Cock in every pot!
Pan tea For All!

Coaster 10-03-2008 09:53 AM

Yep yep...... I look at their actions because they are very practiced at speaking out of both ends of their bodies!!!!

Last nights debate (if you'd call it that) was too safe. It's like they are so close percentage-wise that they just don't want to alienate one single voter! Give me a candidate with the balls to tell it as it is and hunker down to bring back US manufacturing and prosperity................

Irish 10-03-2008 10:49 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Coaster
Yep yep...... I look at their actions because they are very practiced at speaking out of both ends of their bodies!!!!

Last nights debate (if you'd call it that) was too safe. It's like they are so close percentage-wise that they just don't want to alienate one single voter! Give me a candidate with the balls to tell it as it is and hunker down to bring back US manufacturing and prosperity................

Agreed! Irish :thumbs:

Neige 10-03-2008 12:42 PM

While I didn't watch the American debates, one of the Canadian candidates really stood out as superior to me and I admired her way of talking (that should tell you who it was right there ;)).

Jax 10-03-2008 06:10 PM

I enjoyed the debates (American ones, did not get to see Canada ones). I wish either the rules weren't so stringent OR the moderators were better. I'd like to see more dust ups.

That being said, the two debates I've seen so far are tugging me in a certain direction.

And it's not so much that I don't believe them, as much as in the end, what they want, versus what the negotiate away are different.

Scarecrow 10-03-2008 10:40 PM

What they say they want to do and what will get passed congress are two different things all together. the President has no real power anymore.

Oldfart 10-04-2008 03:33 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarecrow
the President has no real power anymore.


Not in the face of hostile congress and/or senate.

VPs have so little power (so long as they don't lose their P), they really are just ladies in waiting.

PantyFanatic 10-04-2008 07:39 AM

BOTH those ^^^ comments are what I USE to believe. .......... And if they are true, my entire government, not just an administration, does not work. :tear:

wyndhy 10-04-2008 02:33 PM

here the commander-in-chief role is really the only thing that is solely the duty of the president. vote with that in mind, and hope that luck, good conscience, check, and balance will turn out the rest for the better.:)

i enjoy watching debate. pres/veep debates— in my(nsfh:D)opinion—don’t make for good debate, though. it's a lot of grandstanding and talking points: the candidate waits for a question that contains a word on their "campaign index card of handy dandy bulleted talking points” then they regurgitate whatever is written on the flyers we get every other day in the mail—which is to say, they don't actually say a lot. well, not a lot of hows anyway—and consequent rebuttal is all he said/she said.

pressie debate can sway me however, ‘cause i feel it can be a decent indicator of disposition and personality. it’s a wee bit more on-the-fly than your average photo op.

candidate debate is tedious enough; i don’t have sufficient international interest to subject myself to watching another country’s debates.:p;) but i do think it’s very cool to hear about other countries’ debates too, neige. neat thread

scotzoidman 10-07-2008 06:37 PM

Anybody planning to watch the manure-spreaders at work in my (formerly) beautiful home town tonight?

Lilith 10-07-2008 06:43 PM

I can't wait.


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